Celebrity chef Paula Deen was today sacked from her job at the Food Network despite begging the public for forgiveness over her past use of racial slurs in a heavily-edited video apology.

A Food Network spokesman issued this statement today: 'Food Network will not renew Paula Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month.' It came just hours after she released the 45-second video in which she says: 'I want to apologize to everybody for the wrong I have done. I want to learn and grow from this.

'Inappropriate, hurtful language is totally, totally unacceptable. I have made plenty of mistakes along the way but I beg you, my children, my fans, my team, my partners, I beg for your forgiveness. 'Please forgive me for the mistakes that I've made.'

The 66-year-old was due to appear on the Today show this morning to to answer questions from Matt Lauer about the racial slurs - but she pulled out just before the show started. Later that day she announced on her Twitter page that she would be releasing a video statement soon. After the initial video was released another, longer one was then posted on YouTube and was taken down soon after.

this blows my mind......who in this forum has never told an off color or racial joke? I hate the n word and would never even use it in a joke, BUT Paula Deen grew up in a segregated era in the south and I’m sure they feel totally different than the normal person. PC run amok

I didn’t realize she was a liberal ....that being said I still think there is a double standard...people in govt. have made worse jokes and nothing happens to them (Bill Clinton said O would be serving drinks to them in a past life)

” I hate the n word and would never even use it in a joke, BUT Paula Deen grew up in a segregated era in the south and Im sure they feel totally different than the normal person. “

First off, “segregated era of the South”? Hate to tell you but Jim Crowe laws started in the North. I know public school history taught by the communists want you to believe racism was only in the South, but the North had its fair share. Hint: Slavery was started in the North by a black man that enslaved another black man during a time when slavery was illegal.

Second, what kind of “off color” jokes have you told yet refuse to use that dreaded n-word? Really? Can’t tell a black joke using that word but any other word is fair game?

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posted on 06/21/2013 2:14:15 PM PDT
by CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)

Again the hammer of political correctness kills. Someone that said the N-word 30 years ago.....Yet the same people who point and condemn are the same people that uses the word in their music videos, music and daily life.
Yea, tell me again about the freedom speech thing again.
I guess if you’re white, that doesn’t matter. I don’t care much for Paula Deen but she did not deserve what they’ll going to do to her.

The idea behind racist jokes, many are hilarious, is not being offended when it is your race, gender, religion, political party, profession, etc. You can make a good funny, a legitimate funny not a hateful one, about anything I represent and I will not only laugh but probably repeat it. Free speech means not being thin skinned and “offended” by personal insecurities. I think we have forgotten what free speech is about, not to mention how to laugh.

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posted on 06/21/2013 2:17:37 PM PDT
by CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)

She should have settled that lawsuit or allowed the case to to to a default judgment.

Clinton should have defaulted on the Paula Jones lawsuit and Paula Dean should have defaulted on this one.

There are times when it is a lot cheaper to just ignore a lawsuit and let a default judgment go in than to try to fight it. Especially when everything the plaintiff says you did do or say, you did do or say.

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posted on 06/21/2013 2:18:41 PM PDT
by P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)

I think it’s a disgrace. She practically made the Food Network. The real problem is that FN is feeling the heat from the nannies who do not like her high-fat food and her obvious delight in southern cuisine. This stinks of political correctness on two levels.

She’s being pilloried for words that were commonly spoken at the time, that being 40 years ago, in the 60’s. This is a lets bring down a popular idol (amongst foodies), because its fun to bring down someone who has worked their *ss off for years and has reached the pinnacle of their success. Time to destroy that nasty capitalist that has made it through hard work.

The Food Network can go take a jump in the lake IMO, and I will personally not watch them in the future. They are perfectly within their rights to remove Paula Deen from their program network, and I am perfectly within my rights to not watch them as my own personal statement. Hope others will do the same, and/or write, e-mail, or phone them to voice displeasure.

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posted on 06/21/2013 2:21:55 PM PDT
by flaglady47
(When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)

She only got fired a few hours ago! Their contracts may not be renewed because of the association. They only got shows because of her! Should the change their show to ‘Not my racist cracka Mama’s meals’?

The only unforgivable crime in this country is being called a racist. Doesn't matter if you really are one. Is Paula Deen a racist? Damifino. The noise and fury over her these past few days hasn't cast any light on the subject. All I know is this is notable because she's a liberal and is getting burned. Liberals usually get a pass on this stuff. When it was Bill Clinton, we were instructed to examine the "totality" of the man.

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posted on 06/21/2013 2:27:20 PM PDT
by Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)

She should have told people to get over it. Blacks use it all the time. You can find THOUSANDS of videos on YouTube of all sorts of celebrities, Black, White and Hispanic, using the term. Rev. Wright's White buddy Father Pfleger uses it all the time. I cannot think of another word that SOME people are allowed to use and not OTHERS. So therefore Blacks should just STFU about it, and stop the phony outrage.

Deen should have just said this. How could it possibly be worse than this disaster.

Oh, please. It isn’t a nice word, but lending it some kind of mystically forbidden & horrifically evil aura is playing into the hands of the left. It’s a racial epithet, nothing more-—there are lots of them.

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posted on 06/21/2013 2:29:54 PM PDT
by CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)

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